New compounds in ring‐opening reaction of 5‐substituted epoxyisoindolines

Methoxy or nitro group present in the furan ring of tertiary alkenylfurfurylamine changes the expected results of both, the intramolecular [4+2]cycloaddition and the acid catalyzed ring‐opening reaction of the derived oxatricycloadduct. With a 5‐methoxy group, in addition to the expected 5‐methoxyisoindoline 3 , the corresponding hydroxy derivative 5 was obtained. On the other hand a 5‐nitro group changes the outcome of the reaction even more profoundly. Instead of the expected 5‐nitroisoindoline 12 , 5‐nitro‐substituted epoxy‐isoindoline 6 submitted to ring‐opening reaction with the mixture of hydrobromic and acetic acid, yielded the mixture of bromo‐substituted epoxy compounds 7,8, 9 and/or bromo‐substituted isoindolines 10 and 11 .